USPTO Patents Application 10098593

Appl. No. 10/098,593

Response dated March 9, 2005

Reply to Office Action of December 9, 2004

ASA-1075

REMARKS / ARGUMENTS

Claims 1-27 remain pending in this application.
Priority

Applicants appreciate the Examiner's acknowledgment of the claim for priority
and safe receipt of the priority document.

Double Patenting Rejection

Claims 1-4, 6, 8-9, 11-14, 16-17, 20-21, 24 and 27 are pending and have
been provisionally rejected under the judicially created doctrine of obvious-type
double patenting over claims 26-33 of copending Application No. 10/253,492.
Without admitting to the propriety of the rejection, the Applicants submit herewith a
terminal disclaimer to avoid the rejection.

Claims 5, 7, 10, 15, 18, 22-23 and 25 are pending and have been
provisionally rejected under the judicially created doctrine of obvious-type double
patenting over claims 26-33 of copending Application No. 10/253,492 in view of
Saoudi et al.

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Appl. No. 10/098,593

ASA-1075

Response dated March 9, 2005
Reply to Office Action of December 9, 2004

Conclusion

In view of the foregoing, Applicant respectfully requests that a timely Notice of
Allowance be issued in this case.

Respectfully submitted,

Shnnath Malur
Reg. No. 34,663
(703) 684-1120

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